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There are two separate forms of nuisance. The civil form is known as private nuisance and the criminal form as public nuisance. It is because of these two aspects that there has always been difficulty in giving nuisance an exact legal definition. However, in its literal sense ‘nuisance’ means ‘annoyance’ or ‘inconvenience’.
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© 1979 James Dunbar-Brunton
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Dunbar-Brunton, J. (1979). The Tort of Nuisance. In: The Law and the Individual. Macmillan Texts for Business Studies. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04532-7_11
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